When in doubt what do you default to for your practice/study? For me it’s iaijutsu and ukemi waza. Anytime handling the sharps is time well spent.

Happy Saturday everybody! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend. Here in the U.S. we have a [rare] long weekend from the Labor Day holiday on Monday. I wanted to let you all know that a new folder of videos for Rokudan Giri, our fundamental six cuts, has been added in the Intermediate Kenjutsu course. Many thanks to Alex Taylor for the incredible videography and Kanji+Hiragana overlays on these videos. They're at a whole new level and I'm excited for you to see them and train along. The videos are available to all in-person students and distance students (both distance student subscription tiers).

A fun question for everyone; what is your training space? Is it somewhere separate from where you live? Is it the dojo itself or whenever the mood strikes you wherever you happen to be? What are some interesting places you’ve trained or places you make a point to train at? For me, I travel quite a bit for work these days so usually the type of hotel I find myself in will dictate what I focus on and whether or not I can tune in on class. When I’m home I usually clear a large space in the living room when the house hasn’t woken up yet and for interesting places, I’ve enjoyed finding a quiet spot or two in the mountains after work occasionally. Sometimes changing things up is a gift in and of itself. I think, for me at least, the objects we dedicate ourselves to signal the spirit of training. For example, the bokken/shinken is here, so here I may begin.

Hi everybody, I just created this poll to get a better idea of where you are at with your training right now. If you're already a distance student, there's no need to answer since this poll is for members who arend distance students yet. Also, there's no wrong answer, I'm just curious to learn where you're at so I know where to direct my time.

I’m finding it very difficult to find CKRT blades designed by James Williams sensei in Canada as they have been discontinued. I already have several and the design is exceptional. I’m looking for the Hissatu 4.5 folder. Has anyone seen these at a reputable dealer? I found what looked like a legitimate online dealer and then realized that they had “everything” at steep (too good to be true” discounts) and ran the site through fraud detection- it seems to have been a fraud from the ground up. I acquired one item through Alibaba and it actually arrived- but it turned out to be a replica. The handle was a giveaway and blade imprints of Kanji characters were missing.. I’m concerned the metal may be Crap-ite and will fail.